A Photographic Holiday Read!

November 18, 2011 @ 6:19PM

A Photographic Holiday Read!

A Playful and Inspirational Holiday Gift

By John Neel

Library Journal just named it a "Best Book for 2011" Art Instruction.

best-of/best-how-to

My book would make a great holiday gift for anyone interested in playful and creative photographic techniques.

The Gallery above shows images that were created using just a few of the playful techniques detailed in the book.

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS AND GALLERY IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT - © JOHN NEEL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED AND ARE NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY PUPOSE WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE WRITER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND/OR PIXIQ.

Open your eyes and RETHINK DIGITAL!

Rethinking Digital Photography is not your average digital photography book! Instead, this book shows you, ways to play with your camera and your photography in order to create unique images. The book is meant to inspire creative thinking and promote the concept of exploration and play. While the book is written primarily around digital cameras, lenses and techniques, nearly every concept will work for analog cameras as well.

This inspirational book is filled with great examples of unique and playful creative imagery covering many great techniques such as HDR photography, alternative lenses, digital zone plate photography, 360˚panorama imaging, camera and lens hacks, homemade tilt-shift lenses, TTV cameras, digital pinhole, digital painting, homemade photographic macro and fisheye lenses, stereo imaging, alternative software and a multitude of other great ways to produce fun, creatively satisfying and unique photographic images.

Never too technical, full of great examples and galleries, easy to read and to understand, Rethinking Digital Photography is meant to appeal to all levels of photographer, from beginners to advanced professionals.

"Photography is changing at the speed of light--and this imaginative manual offers an amazing look at unconventional imaging methods, both digital and analog. Detailed and playful, it presents ideas for repurposing old cameras, making photo devices out of common household items, and creating unique images with today's cameras, mobile phones, software, and other digital technology. From using a TTV cameras lens to panorama and 3D shooting, these techniques will expand any photographer's repertoire!" - Pixiq

"Rethinking Digital Photography - Making & Using Traditional & Contemporary Photo Tools"

BUY the book at Amazon, Barnes and Noble in the USA, Chapters/Indigo in Canada and other fine book stores in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and countries worldwide.

Carole G. - Colorado USA -

"It's a tremendous book, John. I so appreciate your talent, intellect, and persistence."

Martin Gibson - Book Review "As you can see these chapter areas could be considered pretty advanced but don’t be deterred the book doesn’t get technical it rather gives simple to understand overviews of these topic areas which you can then pick and choose for further study. … … The page size is nice and large exploiting the sample shots and so is the colloquial text making it easily digestible. …the concepts being communicated clearly making the book suitable for all ages and for all skill levels… Rethinking Digital Photography … was made to inspire creatives to search for different techniques and media to express our age-old visual requirements."

Liese R. - Chicago, Il. USA

"The pages are beautiful, so well designed: large enough type, simple, clear instructions which make the information and techniques non-threatening and the images DO inspire. The HDR is something I hadn't worked with but I will now. I am a film shooter but I see that Neel's ideas can still translate to my medium and are great for my teaching. Thanks for a really useful hands-on book for photogs and photo teachers alike!"

Fred B. Rochester, NY USA - "Thanks… John, the book is great!"

John S. - Colorado Springs, Co. USA

"This is just a wonderful book. Full of all sorts of innovative and original photographic techniques to explore. It functions in about equal measure as both a detailed manual and an inspirational guide. So, there are shooting techniques described, which involve actually physically modifying your camera or cameras - and expert instructions (and appropriate warnings!) are provided in most of these cases. Plus, tutorial material is provided in other chapters on post-processing explorations… And inter-connections are forged also: some of the images which are postworked come directly from the adapted and "foreign-lens-to-body-combination" cameras. Well done.…"

Walter J. - Upstate NY. USA

"Strap on your seatbelts as Photographer and Digital Imaging Wizard John Neel takes us "behind the curtain" in his laboratory of seemingly mundane gadgets and graft-ons, merging traditional and non-traditional hardware and software to produce wondrous and artistic imagery. Unlike magicians who leave the viewer in a befuddled state of amazement John shares enough theory and technique to make this readily accessible to the everyday Joe who wants to extend his image making horizons. Can photography be any more fun than this?"